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Launch the day with classical music

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing [email protected]

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Mon 12 May 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Hilary Tann

    Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, III. Villa la Quiete

    Ensemble: Meininger Trio.
    • Meininger Trio: Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici.
    • Profil.
    • 7.

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de nuit, Op.15 No.1

    Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hallé.
    • Elgar Wand of Youth.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 23.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Après un rêve Op.7`1

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • Beau Soir: Janine Jansen/Itamar Golan.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasia à 3 'for the great dooble base', MB.48.16

    Performer: Judy Tarling. Performer: Mark Caudle. Performer: Alison Crum. Performer: Peter Holman. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • Music for Prince Charles: The Parley of Instruments/Holman.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto no.6 in F major, BWV.1057 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Richard Egarr. Performer: Rachel Brown. Performer: Rachel Beckett. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • The Guitar: Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major, Op.33`3 'The Bird' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral works.
    • PM Classics Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in F major K.138

    Ensemble: Leonkoro Quartet.

  • Teresa Carreño

    Ballade, Op 15

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • Ars Musici.
    • 002.

  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda (Koanga)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Lord, We Pray That You May Be Merciful (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)

    Choir: Corydon Singers. Choir: Corydon Singers. Conductor: Matthew Best. Conductor: Matthew Best.
    • Rachmaninoff: The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.
    • Hyperion.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Peter and the Wolf (Peter; The Bird; The Duck; The Cat)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 - Saint-Saens: Le Carnaval des animaux & D.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor Op.31

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Benjamin Grosvenor: Chopin, Lizst, Ravel.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bruch, Lalo: Little, RSNO, Handley.
    • EMI Eminence.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival Overture, Op.92

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No.9/Carnival Overture.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D major Kk.119

    Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • ERATO.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Ubi Caritas

    Choir: VOCES8. Performer: Ola Gjeilo.
    • DECCA.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Má vlast)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi.
    • B. Smetana; Moldau/The Bartered Bride: The Cleveland Orchestra/Dohnanyi.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hail, bright Cecilia (Hail, bright Cecilia)

    Choir: Choir of Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Purcell; Handel; Haydn - To Saint Cecilia.
    • Naive.
    • 13.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies, John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 8.

  • Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    String Quartet no.2 in B flat major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet. Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet.
    • Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen - The Six String Quartets.
    • CALA.
    • 12.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Things to Come (March)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Classics for Pleasure.

Broadcast

  • Mon 12 May 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3